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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
attributed-no-source
be-yourself
honesty
inspirational
misattributed-oscar-wilde
Oscar Wilde
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
self-deprecation
Oscar Wilde
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
inspirational
optimism
perception
pessimism
Oscar Wilde
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Hearts are made to be broken.
love
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
romance
Oscar Wilde
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
morality
reading
writing
Oscar Wilde
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
Oscar Wilde
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To define is to limit.
lord-henry-wotton
wilde
Oscar Wilde
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
mercy
Oscar Wilde
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I can resist anything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Oscar Wilde
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
charming
good
tedious
Oscar Wilde
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Oscar Wilde
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
appreciation
hidden-things
Oscar Wilde
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
parents
Oscar Wilde
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
food
thanksgiving
Oscar Wilde
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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
dorian-gray
marriage
men
relationships
women
Oscar Wilde
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
8c87887
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
philosophy
Oscar Wilde
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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.
Oscar Wilde
a90a6a1
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
betrayal
bravery
courage
love
remorse
Oscar Wilde
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To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
humor
paraphrased
parents
Oscar Wilde
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
seriousness
Oscar Wilde
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
mistakes
paradox
timidity
wisdom
Oscar Wilde
f6a8987
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
humanity
sadness
Oscar Wilde
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
Oscar Wilde
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Oscar Wilde
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
epigram
tabloid-journalism
wisdom
Oscar Wilde
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There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
painting
Oscar Wilde
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
history
Oscar Wilde
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
dramatist
morality
novelist
poet
Oscar Wilde
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
epigram
humor
Oscar Wilde
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
epigram
happy-ending
on-fiction
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde